Society needs laws. They should be fair and just laws that do not unnecessarily infringe upon liberties. Our Founding Fathers knew this and installed a benevolent dictator. That dictator’s first initials are U.S., the last name is Constitution.

If we think things are ever going to return to the way they were, we are probably wrong. Washington is miring the country in so much red ink that we are now headed the way of the banking and corporate institutions they are bailing out. Don’t wait for manufacturing to return to our shores. Why is a CEO going to pay a union worker here $30 an hour to make a widget when he can get someone elsewhere in the world to make it for $1 an hour? Also, why conduct business here when success is demonized and the only solution government can think of for their economic woes and to prop up their dependent voter base is to tax the successful?

There is something new in the wind. On the one hand, there is swelling ignorance and apathy. On the other, huge numbers of people are storing food, buying guns and ammo, burying gold in their back yards, and protest marching.

The race issue has long outlived its usefulness in righting a wrong. Now it has beocme a political ploy, an excuse to empower and fund those who have made a career of keeping “racism” alive, and a means to expand a dependent underclass of voters.

One of my favorite sports is 2 X 2 beach volleyball. The only problem is, in beach volleyball you only get to hold the court if you and your partner win. Since it is not unusual for there to be pro players on the courts, they can monopolize the play, meaning I get a lot of sit time.

The current fiscal crisis is not the result of the national debt, the collapsing housing market, wall street, the wealthy, tax cuts, the war on terror, illegal immigrants, insufficient unemployment benefits, the Fed, too low of a minimum wage, China, Europe, outsourcing, or natural disasters.

The current financial problems are not new. They are the breaking flames from what has been smoldering ever since politicians decided to veer from the spirit of the Constitution. Their modus operandi has been: If it moves, tax it. If it moves too fast, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it. They figure it is their job to take (tax) from those who are ambitious, and give (entitlements) to those who aren’t. Although this is euphemistically called “social justice,” it is, plain and simple, theft.

The Nobel Peace Prize decision was made just a few days after Mr. Obama had been in office. Clearly the committee was thinking about something other than actual results. In his acceptance speech, President Obama graciously conceded that the prize was less about his accomplishments and more about hope.

In an ideal world, everyone should be able to move about without regard to borders. But this is not an ideal world. It is a real world in which borders are necessary to keep some semblance of order and peace.

One of the largest companies the world has ever known has gone bankrupt. Over the last five years, its stock was selling near the fifty dollar range at times; for a few weeks it stayed near a dollar before being de-listed last week. How could this happen?

Government is spending outrageous amounts of tax, borrowed, and fiat printed money. In large part this is done to support new government hires and social programs. The end result is increasing numbers of people dependent on government and of the belief that they are entitled to a life of milk and honey regardless of what they do.

America is split into two philosophically opposing camps. There are those of Democrat-Socialist-Communist-Liberal (left) leaning. The others are Republican-Libertarian-Constitutionalist-Conservative (right) leaning. This results in constant political haggling and divisions, while at the same time all of us try to live together in peace.

One of the most important things to remember about socialism – or coercion of any kind – is it fails eventually because human beings have an innate desire for liberty and a strong need for personal property rights. In fact, the origins of government lie in the need of agricultural communities to protect themselves from violence and theft. So it is particularly ironic that in more recent times, it is government itself that has more frequently played the role of bandit. When you start taxing people at extreme rates to pay for socialist "benefits," when you start telling them which schools their children must attend, when you start giving jobs away to people based on race instead of ability... you quash human freedom, which bogs down productivity... and if continued for long enough, leads to social collapse.

Who ever thought we'd see the government running multitrillion dollar deficits, taking over health care, bullying, regulating, and taxing productive business out of business, owning banks, creating a permanent dependent underclass, be the number one employer in the country paying beyond private sector scale, destroying entrepreneurial incentive, printing fiat money by the boatload, and politicians treating themselves like royalty on our dime.

You can pretty much figure that when some cause gains enough critical mass to become popular and cause significant money to flow, that cause has little to do with truth, and a lot to do with money and power.

It is hard not to wonder what has brought our country to the state it is now in. Trillions are being thrown around like pin money. A trillion. That’s a thousand billion! That’s like trying to comprehend infinity to those of us searching for a gas pump charging a couple pennies less.

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